Cultural challenges to psychosocial counselling in Nepal. Export

@article{citeulike:3875112, abstract = {This article describes the way in which the practice of psychosocial counselling was adapted culturally to the context of Nepal within the Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT). After a brief description of the Nepali setting and CVICT's counselling and training approach and the relationship of its psychosocial counselling intervention with existing methods of dealing with psychosocial problems, the cultural challenges of implementing psychosocial counselling and our response to them are sketched along with concepts deemed important in psychosocial counselling. A discussion follows in which the authors' stance on the export of psychosocial counselling to non-western cultures is outlined.}, author = {Tol, W. A. and Jordans, M. J. and Regmi, S. and Sharma, B.}, citeulike-article-id = {3875112}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16114588}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16114588}, issn = {1363-4615}, journal = {Transcultural psychiatry}, keywords = {challenges, counseling, culture, nepal, psychosocial}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {317--333}, posted-at = {2009-01-12 08:25:11}, priority = {0}, title = {Cultural challenges to psychosocial counselling in Nepal.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16114588}, volume = {42}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3875112 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3875112 N2 - This article describes the way in which the practice of psychosocial counselling was adapted culturally to the context of Nepal within the Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT). After a brief description of the Nepali setting and CVICT's counselling and training approach and the relationship of its psychosocial counselling intervention with existing methods of dealing with psychosocial problems, the cultural challenges of implementing psychosocial counselling and our response to them are sketched along with concepts deemed important in psychosocial counselling. A discussion follows in which the authors' stance on the export of psychosocial counselling to non-western cultures is outlined. IS - 2 JF - Transcultural psychiatry SN - 1363-4615 EP - 333 TI - Cultural challenges to psychosocial counselling in Nepal. VL - 42 SP - 317 KW - challenges KW - counseling KW - culture KW - nepal KW - psychosocial AU - Tol, WA AU - Jordans, MJ AU - Regmi, S AU - Sharma, B PY - 2005/06// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16114588 ER -